Disrupting the Ecosystem: The Rise of the Corporate Accelerator

(29th October)

On the 29th of October, OpenAxel, in collaboration with Wayra, NESTA and Innovate Finance present ‘Disrupting the Ecosystem: The Rise of the Corporate Accelerator’ event. This unique occasion provides a full stack innovation strategy overview on a practical level. Whether you’re running an accelerator, are a corporation looking to pursue innovation on a more meaningful level or wish to start buying-in start-up technologies and services, then this event is for you. Everyone in the audience will have an understanding of how it has been done, how it’s evolved and what’s in store in the upcoming years.

The event will be celebrated in Wayra UK premises and will count with the assistance of numerous corporations, including Telefonica, Santander, Orange, Amazon, Virgin, Dell, Barclays, Unilever, Enel or Singtel. For more information on the speakers and the agenda: http://wayra.co.uk/corpaccel/

Companies Participating

Key Note Speaker

Jeff Hoffman (Co-founder)Priceline

Speakers

Gary Stewart (Head of Wayra UK)Wayra UK

John Bradford (Managing Director)TechStars

Jeremy Bassett (New ventures Director)Unilever Foundry

Mei Shui (Managing Director)Virgin Startup

Feilim Mackle (Sales and Service Director)Telefonica/O2

Luciano Tomassi (Head of Innovation Portfolio and New Business Models)Enel